ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Sounds of sickness: can people identify infectious disease using sounds of coughs and sneezes?
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Brain spatial reconciliation through multisensory integration in the impact of pandemic fatigue on workplace.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Acoustic Analysis of Voluntary Coughs, Throat Clearings, and Induced Reflexive Coughs in a Healthy Population.Dysphagia · 2023Article
- Sorry, I am sneezing and coughing but I do not have COVID-19.Brain, behavior, and immunity · 2022Review
- Assessment of cough in head and neck cancer patients at risk for dysphagia-An overview.Cancer reports (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2021Review
- What Role Does Pathogen-Avoidance Psychology Play in Pandemics?Trends in cognitive sciences · 2021Review
- Emerging infectious disease and the challenges of social distancing in human and non-human animals.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Review
- What people believe about detecting infectious disease using the senses.Current research in ecological and social psychology · 2020Article
- Immunoactivation Affects Perceived Body Odor and Facial but Not Vocal Attractiveness.Evolutionary psychology : an international journal of evolutionary approaches to psychology and behaviorArticle
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Abstract
Cough, cough. Is that person sick, or do they just have a throat tickle? A growing body of research suggests pathogen threats shape key aspects of human sociality. However, less research has investigated specific processes involved in pathogen threat detection. Here, we examine whether perceivers can accurately detect pathogen threats using an understudied sensory modality-sound. Participants in four studies judged whether cough and sneeze sounds were produced by people infected with a communicable disease or not. We found no evidence that participants could accurately identify the origins of these sounds. Instead, the more disgusting they perceived a sound to be, the more likely they were to judge that it came from an infected person (regardless of whether it did). Thus, unlike research indicating perceivers can accurately diagnose infection using other sensory modalities (e.g. sight, smell), we find people overperceive pathogen threat in subjectively disgusting sounds.
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